foirer — meaning in English

English meaning

• bungle verb To perform a task badly through carelessness or lack of skill; to botch.
• error noun A mistake, especially one made unintentionally.
• strip noun A long, narrow piece of material or land.

Senses

foirer is used for these senses in English:

• bungle (transitive) To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.
• error (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• mess up (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
• mess up (transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
• screw up (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
• screw up (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
• strip (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• throw off (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.

bungle — full definition

1. verb To perform a task badly through carelessness or lack of skill; to botch.
2. noun A poorly handled situation caused by incompetence; a blunder.

error — full definition

1. noun A mistake, especially one made unintentionally.
2. noun A malfunction or fault reported by a machine or computer program.
3. noun The difference between a measured or calculated value and the true or correct value.

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